Leanne Sowul is a writer of novels, short stories, magazine articles, and children's books. Her short story, "Amish Girl," was published in the Spring 2014 issue of Confrontation literary journal. She has also recently written articles for Hudson Valley Parent magazine, and guest posts for American Scar Stories and Words of Wisdom from the Female Yoda.
Leanne is currently seeking agents to represent her powerful 88,000-word, multiple-perspective historical fiction novel, Triangle Fire, about the events surrounding New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911 and the preceding Shirtwaist Strike of 20,000 in 1909.
Along with her children's book writing partner, Cristen Dimas, Leanne is also seeking publishers for their unique series on the ups and downs of learning musical instruments, the "Miss Mulberry Music" books.
Other projects-in-progress include a nonfiction book about living life with a cancer survivor's perspective; a YA novel about a group of friends who decide that they can "raise themselves" by following the principles of a popular children's book; and varied short stories.
Leanne lives in the Hudson Valley area of New York with her husband and two-year-old son. In addition to being a writer (or perhaps vice versa), she is an elementary band teacher and flutist.
She is proud to be a survivor of childhood cancer.
I have a few friends who are either pregnant or trying to conceive, and as I’ve recently survived a rather challenging pregnancy, I’ve been thinking about advice I could give them. Since I...Read More
Thyroid cancer has been in the news lately, since the celebrity Brooke Burke-Charvet was diagnosed with it. I didn’t know who she was, but apparently she’s the co-host of Dancing With the ...Read More
My son’s having a growth spurt this week, and overnight he stopped fitting into his newborn-sized footie pajamas. He’s a very tall boy, and has been pushing the lengths of the one-piece ou...Read More
I thought the NY Times reviewed The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling very well here: NY Times Review- The Casual Vacancy The reviewer saw more of the “societal ills” aspect to the book than...Read More
It’s my son’s first Halloween, which should be filling me with excitement. But it’s not. Because though he’s too young to know it now, eventually he’s going to find out t...Read More
Yesterday, my son received a great gift from his Great-Uncle and Aunt: an interactive play yard. He had a blast with it, and it was so much fun for me too, getting to see him interact with objects and...Read More